The HR Pro: Top Human Resource Issues for 2016, Part 2
From evolving workplace demographics to overtime expansion to a number of other issues, human resource professionals this year are facing a variety of new and developing challenges. Last month’s column addressed four health-related topics. This month, we’ll look at four workplace and employment issues. The Use and Misuse of Independent Contractors There is growing tension between employers’ desire to use independent contractors — to...
Geisel Faculty Still Waiting On the Details
Hanover — The presentations lacked detail, the questions were polite and the reassurances seemed heartfelt, if vague, as about 150 faculty and staff of Dartmouth College’s deficit-plagued Geisel School of Medicine gathered Monday to hear about restructuring plans. But a vein of uncertainty festered beneath the meeting’s surface civility. That was pointed out by questioners and acknowledged by leaders of Geisel and of...
McDonald’s Fights ‘Joint-Employer’ Label by NLRB
Chicago — McDonald’s tells its franchisees how to staff restaurants, when to clean the bathrooms and where partially completed orders should be placed on counters, an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board said Thursday. That operational nitty-gritty, along with the business consultants, scheduling systems and hiring software provided to franchisees shows the Chicago-area company calls the shots and is ultimately responsible...
Dartmouth Labor Union Elects Chief
Hanover — Dartmouth College’s labor union, Service Employees International Union Local 560, replaced its late president with his right-hand man in an election on Thursday. Local 560 Vice President Christopher Peck won a four-way race to succeed Earl Sweet, who died in January after three decades of service. Peck outpaced his closest challenger, Scott Hunt, by an 80-vote margin, with two other candidates, Seth Nelson and Joanne Norton,...
New Film Examines Market Basket Saga
Concord — There was an air of pleasant routine amid the hustle and bustle at the Fort Eddy Road Market Basket in Concord on Monday. Just as the sun poked through some rain clouds, 85-year-old Kay Helms exited through the store’s automatic door, her cart pushed and eventually emptied by employee Daniel Beldin. The two had just met that day. “I just had a big order,” said Helms, who lives in Bow, N.H. Moments later, 88-year-old Fred...
